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In reply to the discussion: I Look Down on Young Women With Husbands and Kids and I'm Not Sorry [View all]cinnabonbon
(860 posts)But I don't know how you found the label without also seeing what issues were spoken a lot about.
When I talk about misogynistic ideas, I am not talking about just looking down on people. It's human to feel exasperated with how society treats people with children differently. Totally normal.
What I reacted to was about calling mothers "MOO"s, implying they are cows for having children. I was also disappointed in what I saw was dehumanizing kids with disabilities and mocking their parents for having them, being against public breastfeeding... They also thought that the main reason women had children was because they were lonely, and women were pretty worthless if they were stay-at-home mothers. I am not saying you believe any of these things, but the group who used your label certainly did, and they soured my first impression of it.
So that community of childfree people didn't feel very welcoming to me as a woman, despite most of the other members being women as well. It was incredibly disappointing, to be honest. I was really hoping to find a better place than that.